 I dote on his very absence. |
| How well he's read, to reason against reading! |
| Nothing can come of nothing. |
| Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. |
| Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. |
| If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. |
| Time and the hour run through the roughest day. |
| Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. |
| The object of art is to give life a shape. |
| Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. |
| Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. |
| Words without thoughts never to heaven go. |
| Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? |
| But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. |
| The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. |
| Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. |
| There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. |
| Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. |
| How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. |
| And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. |
